Word: wagnerism
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...still forbade theatrical performances as sinful, so Voltaire acquired a new house just across the French border in order to stage his plays. Today Geneva boasts a refurbished Grand Theater (it had been gutted in 1951 when something went wrong during one of the more fiery scenes in Wagner's Die Walkure), but there is still very little night life. Since most forms of gambling are illegal, the casino across the frontier at Divonne is the busiest one in France...
...Tokyo, and writing a book about her peace initiative (Journey to the Soviet Union). Now Miss Smith is going to Hollywood. Starting later this month she will be filming the pilot of a new TV series called 55 Lime Street. In it she will play the daughter of Robert Wagner, an insurance investigator and horse breeder who is independently wealthy (Isn't he always?). Samantha's dad Arthur says he gave the parental thumbs-up after meeting Wagner and finding him to be "a family man, pleasant and low key." In fact, says Dad, Los Angeles...
Pickens had enough for the spectacular, six-month battle for Gulf Oil, which began in October 1983. He waged it with $1.3 billion in credit that he raised from bankers and partners like Independent Texas Oilmen Cyril Wagner Jr. and Jack Brown. "Our bid was extremely bold," says Tassin. "It was an incredibly intuitive reading by Boone." Pickens correctly anticipated that Gulf's top executives would underestimate him and fail to erect an effective defense. "They were not street fighters," Pickens says...
...prosaically conducted by Wolf-Dieter Hauschild and, with the exception of Bass-Baritone Theo Adam's noble Hermit, provincially sung by an all East European cast. The Freischutz production further suffered from Joachim Herz's relentlessly proletarian staging. The first great German romantic opera and a major influence on Wagner, Freischutz is the story of a forester, Max, who almost falls into the devil's clutches trying to regain his lost marksmanship and win the hand of his beloved Agathe. In Herz's hands, though, Weber's tuneful, folkish fable became an undisguised metaphor of the new social order...
...indications are a bit more promising. The opening week also saw the world premieres of a ballet by prominent East German Composer Udo Zimmermann and an opera by Siegfried Matthus, so perhaps Dresden's reputation as a home for new music will be at least partially restored. And Wolfgang Wagner, the composer's grandson who maintains the family shrine at Bayreuth, will direct a new production of Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg in December. But what the Semper needs is what the rest of Eastern Europe's houses need: the free exchange of singers, designers and directors with the West...